Now Great Pajāpatī had once already asked the Master for admission to his Order, and had not won his consent; wherefore she now bade her hairdresser cut off her hair, and donning the yellow robes, she took all those Sākiya ladies with her to Vesālī, and there entreating Him of the Tenfold Power through Elder Ānanda, she gained his permission to leave the world and enter the Order by accepting the Eight Rules.

Tenfold more solitary have I often felt in some city of the East -- perchance amid the glare of some ball-room, or fashionable reception -- than I ever felt in those early girlhood days, even when roaming alone, with no human being within miles of the haunt I had chosen.